Boston City Council tenure of Michelle Wu | |
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.jpg) Wu in 2019 | |
| Member of the Boston City Council at-large | |
| In office January 4, 2014 – November 16, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | John R. Connolly Felix G. Arroyo |
| Succeeded by | Erin Murphy |
| President of the Boston City Council | |
| In office January 2016 – January 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Bill Linehan |
| Succeeded by | Andrea Campbell |
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Boston City Councilor
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Michelle Wu, a Democrat,[1] served as a member of the Boston City Council from January 2014 until becoming mayor of Boston in November 2021. Wu was first elected to the City Council in November 2013, and was re-elected three times (in 2015, 2017, and 2019). In 2016 and 2017, Wu served as the Council’s president.
Wu won positive recognition for her work as a city councilor. Wu served on the Council at a time when the body acted to wield greater influence than earlier iterations had in preceding decades. The council acted particularly bolder during her own tenure as its president. Wu was considered to be a progressive member. As a councilor, Wu authored several ordinances that were enacted as law. This included an ordinance to prevent the city from contracting with health insurers that discriminate in their coverage against transgender individuals. She also authored ordinances to have the city protect wetlands, support adaption to climate change, enact a plastic bag ban, adopt Community Choice Aggregation, and provide paid parental leave to municipal employees. As a city councilor, Wu also partook in a successful effort to adopt regulations on short-term rentals.
- ^ LeBlanc, Steve (August 17, 2021). "Boston edges toward historic shift as mayoral field narrows". ABC News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on August 17, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2021.